All Episodes

369: Trump Goes To China with Evan Osnos and Paul & Stefanie Taylor

368: Oorah! with JoAnna Mendoza

367: A King, A Pope & A Trump With Ed Luce & Jim Gerstein

366: Too Much Winning In 2026 with Dr. Amy Acton, David Pepper, & Bobby Pulido

365: Mad Men with Dr. Trita Parsi

364: Winning Is Everything, Stupid With Gov. Steve Bullock

363: It’s A Points Game With Christine Brennan

362: Teleport Us To The Waffle House With G. Elliot Morris

361: Home & Away with Richard Haass & Mayor Paige Cognetti

360: Winning Hearts & Minds with Stephen A. Smith & Dr. Trita Parsi

359: WAR, What Is It Good For? with Max Boot

358: A Tale Of Three Andrews

357: Pound The Table With Catherine Rampell & Dr. Annie Andrews

356: The Rising Star of Texas Politics: James Talarico

355: Stop The Steal with Michael Waldman

354: How Trump Is Weaponizing The Law with Abbe Lowell

353: The Political Landscape Ahead of the Midterms With Rep. Jason Crow

352: Trump Is Sabotaging America with Ruth Ben-Ghiat

351: MN v. ICE & Seahawks v. Patriots / with MN AG Keith Ellison & Greg Cosell

350: Electability in American Politics with Mitch Landrieu

349: How Young Voters Are Reacting to Trump's ICE Raids

348: What The Pollsters Think

347: Make Greenland Danish Again With Annegrethe Rasmussen

346: Imperial Trump With Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi

345: Trump Flips The Bird With Franklin Foer

344: Storm At The Capitol With Mary Clare Jalonick

343: Happy New Year 2026 From The Gang

342: Happy Holidays with Judy Woodruff & Mary Matalin

341: Trump Derangement Syndrome

340: Winning Back The Youth Vote with John Della Volpe

339: Blood In The Water With Rep. Jason Crow

338: Shocking Incompetence of the Trump Administration with Tom Edsall

337: The History Of The Epstein Files With Sidney Blumenthal

336: Duty, Honor, Country with Brigadier General Ty Seidule (Ret.)

335: Finally, Dems In Array with Jim Gerstein

334: Art Heists & Drug Wars with Max Boot and Yves Istel

333: Gaudy and Banal with Paul Goldberger

332: The Race Is On In VA & NJ with David Wildstein & Larry Sabato

331: Shutdown Shame with Rep. Brendan Boyle

330: Trump & Hegseth Blew It with Leon Panetta

329: Fascism Vs. Democracy with Mitch Landrieu & Benjamin Hett

328: Crime & Punishment with David Kennedy & David Harris

327: The World’s Worst Bet with David J. Lynch

326: The Ides of September with Ron Brownstein

325: Hoist The Jolly Roger with Rahm Emanuel & Rob Sand

324: Defeating Putin & Winning At Home

323: War & Crime with Craig Symonds

322: Trump’s Plunging Polls with Professor Alexander Theodoridis

321: The Epstein Conspiracy with Judd Legum

320: A Real Alternative with Governor Wes Moore

319: Who Is The Worst

318: A World In The Shadows with Shane Harris

317: How Democrats Lost America with Josh Dawsey

316: It’s July 2nd, Stupid

315: How To be An Opposition with Senator Chris Murphy

314: Middle East Redux with Professor Vali Nasr

313: Z-Big with Ed Luce

312: The Haves & The Have-Yachts with Evan Osnos

311: Deadly, Dangerous, Decline with Larry Summers

310: It’s The Keystone State For A Reason with Rep. Brendan Boyle

309: Politics NOT As Usual with Senator Angus King

308: Time For A Democratic Schism with Rep. Ro Khanna

307: 100 Days Of Trump with Ryan Lizza

306: Nip It In The Bud with Governor Andy Beshear

305: Tariff Turmoil with Roger Altman

304: Are We Still The Leader Of The Free World? with Admiral James Stavridis

303: The Comeback Begins with MI State Senator Mallory McMorrow

302: Attack Attack, Deny Deny, Lie Lie with Rep. Ritchie Torres

301: The True Voice Of America with Professor Geoffrey Cowan

300: Nattering Nabobs Of Negativism With Elisabeth Bumiller

299: Why Can’t We Have Nice Things? with Marc Dunkelman

298: A (Worse) New World Order With Ed Luce

297: It’s Not Going To Play In Peoria with Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi

296: The Cavalry Isn’t Coming With Senator Slotkin

295: The Billionaires Bowl With Greg Cosell

294: Money, Lies, & God with Katherine Stewart

293: Trump Is Flooding The Zone

292: The Future Of Democratic Messaging with Brian Tyler Cohen

291: Remembering A President with James Fallows

290: The War Room Council Convenes

289: Happy Holidays with Judy Woodruff & Mary Matalin

288: Trump’s War On The Press with Michael Gartner

287: The American People Deserve A Raise with Rep. Ro Khanna

286: American Authoritarianism with Professor Steven Levitsky

285: Happy Thanksgiving

284: The Dems Are Dazed and Confused with Ambassador Frank Wisner

283: We're Going To Need A Whole New Media with Michael Tomasky

282: The Post-Election Plan

281: Live in Boston with Doris Kearns Goodwin

280: What The Polls Tell Us with Jim Gerstein & Dr. Whit Ayers

279: McConnell and Michigan with Michael Tackett & Melissa Burke

278: Fascism & The Fight For NC with Dr. Michael Bitzer & Max Boot

277: Battle For The Silver State with Jon Ralston

276: Putting It All On The Line with Ben Wikler And Martina Navratilova

275: Pennsylvania & The Fools On The Hill With Gov. Josh Shapiro & Dana Milbank

274: Live at 92NY

273: From Mississippi to the Battleground States with Michael Podhorzer & Wright Thompson

272: Trump Gets Trumped

271: The Electoral Landscape Past & Present with Dr. Whit Ayres & Dr. Lindsay Chervinsky

270: The Post-Biden World with David Ignatius

269: Why Harris Will Win with Mitch Landrieu | DNC Day 4

268: DNC Day 3 - The Battle for North Carolina with Gov. Cooper

267: DNC Day 3 - What The Pollsters Really Think

266: How To Win With Nancy Pelosi - DNC Day 2

265: DNC Day 2 - Justin Pearson & Don Scott

264: DNC Day 1 - Senate Insights with JB Poersch

263: DNC Day 1 - Four Party Chairs

262: Communication Breakdown

261: Winning In Sport & Politics with Dr. Edwin Moses

260: Kamala & The Youth Vote with John Della Volpe

259: They Got Hit In The Mouth with Jim Gerstein

258: Fire The Cannon with Pam Karlan

257: Thank You George Clooney

256: The Next President with Ron Brownstein

255: As Goes The Election, So Goes The World with Jim Steinberg

254: Debate Prep with Bob Shrum

253: The Fall Of Roe with Lisa Lerer

252: How To Win An Information War with Peter Pomerantsev

251: Oxbridge Sentences with Ed Luce

250: Around The World with Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi

249: The Lost Cause with Heather Cox Richardson

248: God & Country with Katherine Stewart

247: Campus Chaos with Professor Emeritus Mark Yudof

246: War & Peace with General John Allen

245: Convicting Trump & Finding The Center with Fred Wertheimer & Billy Ray

244: Supreme Allied Commander for The War On Women - Senator Tina Smith

243: The Court & The Constitution with Justice Stephen Breyer

242: March Madness with John Feinstein

241: Pestilence and War with Admiral James Stavridis and Dr. Cornelia Griggs

240: Rural Rage with Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman

239: Biden’s Last Campaign with Evan Osnos

238: Greedflation with Senator Bob Casey

237: Putin, Trump & Lincoln with Sidney Blumenthal

236: Catching A Supreme Court Case with Professor Pam Karlan

235: The New York Times with Adam Nagourney

234: From The Civil War To The Middle East w/ Professor Sean Wilentz and Indira Lakshmanan

233: Democratic Rebels with Joshua Green

232: After Iowa

231: Iowa Caucus Kickoff with Jill Abramson

230: Polling Prognostication with Fred Yang & Jim Gerstein

229: And A Happy New Year

228: We Wish You A Merry Christmas

227: The State of the Nation

226: Religion & Speech with Professor Marci Hamilton

225: Evangelicals and Extremism with Tim Alberta

224: The Day The President Was Shot

223: Generational Victory with John Della Volpe

222: The Return of the Religious Right with Thomas Edsall

221: Bibi’s Face with Indira Lakshmanan

220: Strategy of War with Admiral Stavridis and Ehud Barak

219: Israeli Intrigue w/ Alon Pinkus & Congressional Chaos w/ Carl Hulse

218: Israel with Jim Gerstein and Brigadier General Ty Seidule

217: Beating Boebert with Adam Frisch & Identity Politics with Yascha Mounk

216: The Shutdown with Rep. Brendan Boyle

215: 2024 Election Prospects with Elaine Kamarck & Susan Swecker

214: The Fight For Our Kids with Senator Chris Murphy

213: Biden’s White House with Frank Foer & The Extremist Threat with Kathleen Belew

212: The State of The Economy with Roger Altman

211: The Media with Sarah Ellison

210: Trump’s Indictment & American History

209: Dropping A Bombs & F Bombs

208: It's The Economy, Stupid w/ Professor Laura Tyson

207: Building A Democratic Majority with Simon Rosenberg

206: Running Things with OMB Director Shalanda Young

205: Al Gore: Climate Crisis

204: Chris Christie

203: RUSSIA

202: #StillWinning w/ Ron Brownstein

201: Espionage w/ Fmr SecDef Bill Cohen

200: Ro Khanna

199: The 4 F’s with Paul Begala (there’s actually 5)

198: Artificial Intelligence w/ MIT Prof. John Guttag

197: The World In Review w/ Ed Luce

196: Law & Sports w/ Aitan Goelman & Luke Russert

195: Gov. Josh Shapiro

194: Tucker's gone, now what? with Sarah Ellison

193: The Business End of a Mop

192: Political Violence w/ Thomas Edsall & Michael Fanone

191: Trump Arraigned

190: Rep. Dan Goldman & John Feinstein

189: WisDems with Ben Wikler

188: The Two Franks

187: From The Middle East To Middle America

186: Gov. Wes Moore

185: Trump’s Malfeasance with Marcy Wheeler & Morgan Cloud

184: Rep. Colin Allred

183: The Big Battles with Greg Cosell & Brandon Presley

182: Policing with David Harris

181: Admiral James Stavridis

180: A Tale Of Two Documents with Andrew Weissmann

179: Coming Challenges with Professor Julian Zelizer

178: Speaker Madness with Carl Hulse

177: Ringing In The New Year

176: Mary & Judy

175: Butt Plugs & Dildos

174: After Georgia with Michael McDonald

173: Glob of Protoplasm

172: Dark Money

171: Ro Khanna & Tyler Bridges

170: Election Aftermath with Robert Draper

169: Midterms By The Numbers with Stanley Greenberg

168: PA & UK with Ed Luce and Jonathan Tamari

167: From Georgia to Iran with David Ignatius & Stephen Fowler

166: The Battle for Arizona with Yvonne Wignett Sanchez

165: Michael Kofman & Howard Wilkinson

164: Nevada Midterms with Jon Ralston

163: Introducing: It Was Said Season 2

162: Tar Heel Politics with Michael Bitzer

161: The State of Wisconsin with Ben Wikler

160: Michigan Midterms with Bill Ballenger

159: A history lesson with Stephen Kotkin

158: Richard Ben Veniste & Mark Leibovich

157: Sean Wilentz

156: Will Bunch: After The Ivory Tower Falls

155: David Maraniss: Path Lit By Lightning

154: Rico with Law Prof. Morgan Cloud

153: Lis Smith: Any Given Tuesday: A Political Love Story

152: Foreign Affairs with Ed Luce & Michael Abramowitz

151: Revisionist History: The Triplicate Program and Opioid Epidemic

150: Tim Miller: Why We Did It

149: The State of the Supreme Court with Linda Greenhouse

148: Ryan Grim from The Intercept

147: Rep. Ro Khanna

146: The Betrayal: How Mitch McConnell and the Senate Republicans Abandoned America with Ira Shapiro

145: To Risk It All with Admiral James Stavridis

144: It's The Economy Stupid with Roger Altman

143: This Will Not Pass with Jonathan Martin & Alexander Burns

141: Debugger - Defending democracy from big tech

142: Fmr. SecDef Bill Cohen

140: Jeff Nussbaum

139: Will Be Wild

138: Sen. Mallory McMorrow

137: War & Peace w/ General John Allen

136: Border Breakdown w/ Amna Nawaz

135: Just Smell It & Go On w/ David Pepper

134: From Against the Rules with Michael Lewis: Six Levels Down

133: Dr Fiona Hill on Russia & Jon Macks on The Oscars

132: Just back from Ukraine with Nick Schifrin

131: Is Russia a real country with Peter Pomeranzev

130: Ron Brownstein

129: 180º Addict

128: Ukraine with Anne Applebaum

127: Senator Bill Bradley

126: Super Bowl Special

125: SCOTUS With Walter Dellinger

124: Ukraine with David Sanger

123: Sherrilyn Ifill & Michael Waldman

122: Molly Jong-Fast

121: 1/6 with Rep. Jamie Raskin

120: Happy New Year With Friends

119: RETRO: In memory of Harry Reid

118: Holiday Spirit

117: Omicron Is Here

116: PHD In White-Trashology

115: Remembering Pearl Harbor with Craig Symonds

114: John Feinstein

113: Rep. Dan Crenshaw “Jellybeans in a turd”

112: Danny Meyer

111: Senator Angus King

110: Rep. Liz Cheney

109: Rt Hon. Tony Blair

108: Paul Begala

107: Dems working it out ?

106: Barney Frank

105: Emily Bazelon & David Wessel

104: Prof. Joseph Ellis

103: WORTH: Ken Feinberg & Camille Biros

102: Election Experts - Kristen Soltis Anderson & Amy Walter

101: Afghanistan with Ed Luce & Vali Nasr

100: EPISODE 100 !!!! - Professor Craig Symonds

99: DeSantis Is A Giant Asshole also Donald McNeil discusses COVID

98: Lieutenant General Russel L. Honoré (Ret.)

97: Professor Randall Kennedy

96: Fmr. US Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman

95: Michael C Bender

94: Admiral James Stavridis, Fmr Supreme Nato Commander

93: Mayor Phillip Levine

92: Penis talk, Brett Kavanagh with Jackie Calmes and Tucker Carlson with Ben Smith

91: Andy Slavitt and Bill Leonard

90: Coach Pete Carroll & Audrey Cavenecia

89: Alex Gibney: Crime Of The Century

88: Fmr. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid

87: Sphincter Hall of Fame

86: David Leonhardt

85: Michael Waldman

84: Zach Carter and Evan Osnos

83: Jim Gerstein & Phil Klay

82: Our Towns, w/ Deb & James Fallows, Jeanne Jordan & Steven Ascher

81: Manchin, Gaetz and James's famous tuna sandwich recipe

80: From G. Gordon Liddy to Matt Gaetz

79: Ron Brownstein & John Feinstein

78: Dr Sean Carroll

77: Ret. Brigadier General Ty Seidule & Former NOLA Mayor Mitch Landrieu

76: Amanda Carpenter

75: Rep. Colin Allred

74: Jane Fonda

73: Senator Doug Jones

72: Laurie Garrett & Greg Cosell

71: Michael McFaul & David Folkenflik

70: Inauguration Day w/ Leon Panetta & Walter Dellinger

69: Impeachment Day... again w/ Professor Kathleen Belew & Walter Pincus

68: John Couvillon & Sec William Cohen

67: Joe Drape

66: David Sanger, Mary Matalin & Judy Woodruff

65: Ron Brownstein

64: Tim O’Brien & John Barry

63: Senator Chris Dodd & Stephen Fowler

62: Bill Kristol & Evan Osnos

61: Shane Harris & Chris Huttman

60: Ed Luce & Tom Edsall

59: In Limbo: Paul Begala, Jill Abramson, Tara Setmayer & Cass Sunstein

58: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Live Stream 'Election 2020

57: Gov. Gretchen Whitmer & Sen. Bob Casey

56: Sarah Silverman and Michael McDonald

55: Dr. Richard Murray on Taking Texas and Fred Wertheimer on the Influence of Dark Money

54: Andrew Weissman on Trump's criminality and Kathleen Belew on the hidden threat of white supremacy

53: Ben Ginsberg and Mayor Michael Coleman: James Carville and Al Hunt Discuss the Debate and the State of the Election

52: Sen. Cory Booker on the Battle for the Supreme Court and Sean McElwee on the Strength of Progressive Democrats

51: James and Deborah Fallows on Trump's Alternate Reality and the Concerns of Small Town America

50: Sen. Timothy E. Wirth on protecting our Republic, and Joseph Serna on the Toll of California's Wildfires

49: Andrew Bacevich on the Future of Foreign Policy, Michael McDonald on Florida's Fate and Billy Begala on Trump's Texas Titanic

48: Conor Lamb on Biden's Everyman Appeal and Rashawn Ray on the Aftershock of Kenosha

47: Charlie Cook handicaps the Presidential race post-convention

46: Senator Jeff Flake Denounces Trumpism and Jerry Seib on How Reagan Led to Trump

44: Senator Michael Bennet on Russian Collusion, Corruption within the Trump Administration, and the future of our Nation

43: House Majority Whip James Clyburn champions his bill to save the US Post Office and America's right to vote-by-mail

42: Ben Wikler on the Realities of a Virtual Convention and Dan Mathews on America's Relationship with the Elderly

41: Geoff Garin on Truth in Polling and Jim Tankersley on the Slow Demise of America's Middle Class

40: Kelly Burton and Jessica Post on Bottom-of-the-Ballot Battles and Seth A. Richardson on Corruption in Ohio

39: Julian Zelizer and Thomas Patterson on the Modern History of the GOP

38: Lisa Remy on the Safest Path to Schools Reopening and Ben Sheehan on the Contents of the Constitution

37: David Paul Kuhn and Stan Greenberg on Democrats' Alienation of White Working-Class Voters

36: James Lankford on the State of Lincoln's Party and Matt Bai on the Truth about Trumpism

35: Walter Dellinger on the Eroding Justice Department and Keith Mason and Paul Begala on the Odds of Texas and Georgia Going Blue

34: Howard W. French on Race and the Media, and Ron Brownstein on Shifts in the Electorate

33: Timothy L. O'Brien on the Methodology and Madness of Trump

32: David Harris on Essential Police Reforms

31: Charlie Sykes and Tim Miller on the Fight for the Soul of the Republican Party and Ron Chernow on the Truth about Ulysses Grant

30: David Wessel on the Unpredictability of the Current Economy

29: Norman Pearlstine on Journalism During a Global Crisis and Jung H. Pak on the Real Power of North Korea

28: Marlo Thomas and Phil Donahue on Marriage Lessons from Quarantine

27: Drew Faust on Dignity and Death in the COVID Era and John Feinstein on the Sports World's Pandemic Response

26: John R. Allen on The Readiness of the U.S. Military During the Pandemic

25: Madeleine Albright on America's Role as a Global Leader

24: Michael Tackett Talks Going Toe-to-Toe with Trump and Joanne Lipman Illuminates A Hidden Healthcare Crisis

23: Journalist David Shribman Juxtaposes Canada's Coronavirus Response With The United States' Efforts

22: Author Deborah Fallows and Journalist James Fallows Examine the Pandemic's Effect on Small Town America

21: Stephanie Cutter Discusses Joe Biden's Next Moves and Dr. Zeke Emanuel Explains the Scope of the Coronavirus

20: John Barry Compares the Coronavirus to the 1918 Spanish Flu

18: James Carville Super Tuesday Wrap Up and Roger Altman on the Economy

18: Antjuan Seawright on South Carolina and Amy Dacey on Possible Brokered Convention

17: Jon Ralston on Nevada and Ruy Teixeira on Ideological Motivations

16: Governor Terry McAuliffe and Jeff Berman

15: Ann Selzer on Iowa and The Fate of the Democratic Party

14: Impeachment Trial in the Senate Analysis from James Carville and Al Hunt

13: Former White House legal counsel Greg Craig compares Trump's impeachment defense to Clinton's and Jim Dunnam breaks down Trump's legal defense team member Ken Starr

12: Jonathan Martin on Democratic Debate and LSU's Epic Football Season

11: Trump Plays the War Card and Michael Gartner on the Iowa Caucuses

10: Michael McDonald and our Democratic Candidate Report Card

9: Judy Woodruff and Mary Matalin

8: Former Secretary of Defense Bill Cohen on Impeachment

7: Jill Abramson on the Media's Coverage of Impeachment

6: Kamala Harris Bows Out and Walter Dellinger Talks Impeachment

5: Roger Altman on the Economy and The Fall of Rudy Giuliani

4: Pollster Ann Selzer on the Pete Buttigieg Surge

3: Elizabeth Warren Rejects the War Room and Ed Luce dissects Brexit

2: Election 2020 presented by The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette & Highmark

1: Nancy Pelosi - Charlie Cook - Tom Edsall

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